Coffee house chair No. 56 is manufactured in a factory founded by the sons and successors of Thonet in 1861 in the Moravian city of Bystritz am Hostein, today Bystrice pod Hostýnem in the Czech Republic. Despite the turns of fortune it is still known today as TON (továrny na ohýbaný nábytek – "Factory for Bentwood Furniture").Bystritz is thereby the oldest and most revered location in the world where furniture is still manufactured by manually bending wood.

We offer the bentwood chairs with a black lacquered finish or in a stained und clear varnished brown. The chairs are embossed with the patterns from the old templates, a technique, which like the manufacture of the bentwood furniture itself, is an industrial procedure.

The selection of bentwood furniture TON manufactures is increasing annually, which one can see at the relevant furniture fairs every year. In addition the various chairs are still produced based on the earlier designs from the founding of the firm, which are considered classical chairs today. At the time those models which later became famous were mass produced (in the 19th century they were called "consumer furniture "). Which is how they became the coffee house chairs for an entire epoch. Chairs like those that became known as Model No. 14, with its curved backrest made of two bentwood arches, the coffee house chair par excellence, or the armchair No. 24, with its "palmette" executed backrest embodied designs which reflected the Zeitgeist. They owe their wide distribution to their minimal weight, their comfort and the fact because of their industrial manufacture, they were affordable, qualities which still distinguish them today.

We offer the bentwood chairs either black lacquered or braun stained and clear lacquered. Their seats are embossed with patterns based on old patterns - a technique that, like the manufacture of bentwood furniture itself, requires machine and industrial production.